Professional Quotes
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I want to be a professional.
Chris Burke
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I always seem to get parts where I play the sports professional - and that's not me at all!
Jay Ryan
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Credentials are critical if you want to do something professional. If you want to become a doctor or lawyer or teacher or professor, there is a credentialing process. But there are a lot of other things where it's not clear they're that important.
Peter Thiel
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The world over - 50 million children start playing tennis, 5 million learn to play tennis, 500,000 learn professional tennis, 50,000 come to the circuit, 5000 reach the grand slam, 50 reach Wimbledon, 4 to semi final, 2 to the finals, when I was holding a cup I never asked GOD 'Why me?'. And today in pain I should not be asking GOD 'Why me?'
Arthur Ashe
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As a professional climber and photographer, I am asked to shoot in a lot of situations with a lot of different people. Sometimes I'm with the hardest, most seasoned alpinists in the world. Sometimes I'm hanging out with celebrities doing a benefit climb.
Jimmy Chin
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When I was a kid, I never thought much about football. I thought about following in my family's footsteps and going into professional wrestling.
Dwayne Johnson
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The cutthroat part of it is that professional wrestling has no union. There are a number of people that are taken advantage of on a daily basis.
Bill Goldberg
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'Dancing with the Stars' was a really great experience. People were definitely surprised that I'm a fighter, or they couldn't believe I'm a professional fighter, but I feel like I'm going to get that for a while. I'm excited to bring a new demographic over to MMA and the UFC.
Paige VanZant
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Once I started working as a professional actor, it was like, 'Bye-bye waiting tables, bye-bye bartending, bye-bye all the cliched jobs actors do.' But after a year of not getting work, there's this really difficult conflict, like, 'Do I have to go back to being a waiter when people recognize me from a show?'
David Walton
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I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee.
Bella Abzug
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I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be!
Kathryn Lasky
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I did interviews with tennis greats, like James Blake and John Isner. I also interviewed tennis pros who aren't well - known but who made all the same sacrifices but had just a little spark of a professional career and are now still orbiting the sport, either as a teaching pro or a coach.
Douglas Brunt
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'NOTA', for his film Lucy, as quoted in 'Luc Besson's Statement Of Intent For 'Lucy' Compares The Film To '2001,' 'Inception' & 'Leon The Professional'' by Kevin Jagernauth, in Indiewire (28 July 2014)
Luc Besson
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I travel, a lot, to research the locales for the books. I have professional contacts that I can ask questions of or show them scenes to vet.
Jeff Abbott
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I'd like to run a professional football team. I'd love to run the USTA, be the sports editor of the 'New York Times.'
Jeff Zucker
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My grandmother is a huge Hawkeyes fan, so I, by proxy, have to be one. I'm more of a professional sports fan, and I've never been a huge college fan, but because of my grandmother, I've gotten into a lot of really good Hawkeye games. So, because I'm a good grandson, I'm a Hawkeye fan.
Corey Taylor
Stone Sour
